DCS did more than drop the ball
Someone dropped the ball? Dropped the ball? Dead infants and children are not dropped balls! It is sheer idiocy to use this term referring to this disgraceful situation in which 42 children in the custody of Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services died or nearly died as a result of abuse and neglect.
The people responsible for the non-action of investigating these incidents should be prosecuted for negligence of their duties. Is the attorney general’s office looking into this? It should be, and all negligent employees should be fired and never allowed to work in any similar line of work.
Why didn’t hospitals report these incidents to police? Or did they? This is looking like an embassy cover-up, with bits of information being dragged out a little at a time. This should be on all the late-night TV shows, and daytime news programs, along with the names and photos of the negligent employees.
Were the qualifications of the person in charge ever checked? If not, why not? Things like this don’t just happen overnight. There had to have been some kind of work record available. Or was it political? Dropped ball, my foot.
HELEN COOPER, Signal Mountain, Tenn.